July 7, 2026 • 9 mins
In this edition of Small Thing Big Joy, Patsy celebrates the tradition of the Driveway Goodbye - those extra few minutes spent waving, chatting, and watching loved ones pull away. As the tradition fades with younger generations, Christian and the team discuss why these small moments of connection leave such a lasting impact.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I Heart podcasts, hear More Gold podcast playlist and listen
live on the free I Heart app. Got anything good? Hey,
this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right, turn
now for this week's small thing, Big Joy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Small thing, Big Joy text us spot you enjoy, like
finding five bucks in your jeans or buying the soft
fan of your dreams.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
All right, what s more thing gives you big joy?
Text us yours share it? Oh four seventy five three
one o four three, Perhaps you what's yours?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Mine is driveway goodbyes, which I think is a dying art,
so doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Whenever we go up to my parents place.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Whether it's a small visit could be just five minutes
to drop something off, pick something up, or a long
visit on Sunday afternoon, they will always come out and
wave us goodbye, always always sweet.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
But it's a dying art.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I think it's dying off with the older generation where
they would always see you off and it's so beautiful
and I know one day when they're.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Not around, you'll miss that wave. I will miss that
so much, really touching, and it's just the simplest thing.
And Mum will wait until you're.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Down out of sight until I'm still the same parts. Right.
The kids, my two daughters now will obviously drive their
own cars. I still walk them to their cars, help
them with their crap, and we'll wave them off down
the road. You can go now. And no, No, it's
just a thing, you know. It's a generational thing.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It really is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
There was never a time when I was growing up
if you visited an aunt and uncle or cousins where
they didn't come out and wait off.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Now we don't do it anymore, and I think it's
a real show.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
If you are the receiver of the wave off, you
should give it away bast away raised right, just not
the big old but a little like you know, as
you're being waved off, if you're the wavy and they're
the wavers, and you've got to return it with your
going down the road.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, only with Mom and Dad though they're the only
ones I do, because they're always out the front in
the driveway waving a song.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I think it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
If I came to visit you, would you wave me off?
I think I can imagine what kind of wave?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Thank god he's gone?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What's that? They don't do that enough anymore?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The old driveway bird.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The bird by.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You wouldn't come out where do you come?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Mind?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
You?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
If I was going to get the wave off just
to experience that real what small thing? But that was
a beautiful one, Percy, thanks for show no Rial, what's yours?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I had a goodie yesterday. I was at the petrol station,
pulled in behind this guy in front of me. He
filled up first, he went in. I came in after he.
I caught him napping. He's looking around at the Allan's lollies,
the snake having a little look at the ice cream
right in front of him.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I paid before him.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh sorry, brother.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
In this game silky soccer skills, there a little side step, yes,
a bit of ekunda. And now Intern Pete is part
of the advance party. He's up at the criteria in
hotel where we'll be live tomorrow morning. This is the
part we've been renovating for the last couple of weeks.
And Pete, what small thing, big joint for you.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I don't want to use the words the greatest day
of my life, but yes, that was actually yesterday when
I sliced a big chunk of cheese. Now the biggest
challenge when you slice the cheese is, oh, how many
crackers do I need to take out of the packet
to match the ratio of the cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Now, this ratio has got to be right, cracker to
You've got to balance it. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You've got to get it so right. There's no having
to go back to the pantry and get more or
bring in the whole packet than having to put the
packet back later, all that sort of stuff. You've got
to get it right. I predicted that I would need
thirteen ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I got.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No cheese an afternoon.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It was a lot of cheese, and it was a
beautiful thirteen crackers, perfectly the right amount of cheese on
everything one, none of that like, oh a little bit
on that one and a little bit bigger on that.
It was just perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Now tell me this, in fact, don't tell us your team.
Let's have a guess what type of cheese you think
Pete was calming up? You think a common of garden
hard cheddar.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I think he's gone from Mercy Valley cheddar.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's a bit fancy. It's Sydney cider in him, isn't it.
You know all those shears in a cane jay show.
I think he's going for bre.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The answer is it was cheer cheese. Oh, sorry to
disappoint everyone. It was no dafn ware or saying to
go from Leon in France. It was just typical, very
basic chee che.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Lovely couple of slices of Yarlsburg yesterday afternoon picked me up.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I feel I've disappointed all of you by just eating
stand and cheese.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I just thought you would be a bit more fancy.
I thought you thought you might even be maybe a
manchega or gooda man.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh, I do love all of them. See I used
to be a cheesemaker as well, but sometimes it's nice
to go back to basics.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Yes, so I learned how to make cheese, after all, I.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thought you were talking about what you did in the
Carl and Jackie o' show. Awful lot of cheese, sour blue,
very blue, very blue. Actually yes, yes, things got rights.
Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
After my apprenticeship with the chef, I learned how to
make cheese in regional Victoria at Timboon Farmhouse Cheese. The
cheese was that good it was taken over by King
island and then can of beers, breeze, you name it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
This is incredible. What a life you've led.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yes, and I'm only thirty five. It's crazy now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Participating before the show was telling us when we were
talking about how do you cut the cheese? I actually
cut it in a triangle formation and then you dress
the plate so it looks quite nice when you have
a little bit of cheese and crankers. But I got
the idea is just using sliced cheese.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Correct, I just used that, you know cheese, like sliced
cheese cheese.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's not Bogan, it's burger burger cheese. Well, if you're
using the pre slice stuff you're in the Rappers, you don't.
That's not a shark coute kind of board.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Look, not in the Rappers.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
This is the one that's you know the square box
that you get at Willworths or Coals.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
And like eager or huge.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, exactly, and it just comes as a square.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
But I only use that because I have it as
a snack daily and I like a controlled.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Amount how many slices.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I would have two slices, which is equivalent to probably
about if I break it down into six twelve and
then I get my thirteen crackers.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's the magic number this morning. All right, okay, what
is the small thing big joy for you? For you
stay seker about him. Small thing big joy is when
I'm baking a cake and I need one hundred and
twenty five grams of butter and I managed to just
eyeboard it and slice off exactly one hundred and twenty
five grams a butt off the wedge on my first
attempt known bessing about trying to get a tiny bit
(07:14):
more but five grams ten grams. It's uncanny when you
hit that. You do it for great. It's like an
Olympic gold medal. Christian small thing big joy. When you
craving a few crackers, open the packet, boom, thirteen left.
It's the number today, show thirteen Christian small thing big Joy.
Tickling toddlers, now, Christy, Obviously you need to know the toddler.
(07:38):
You need to be related to a toddler. You can't
be going around tickling unknown toddlers. I should have to
say it, but I feel like I should say three.
The label always always check with a toddle of bine.
You right to have a little chicky tile Christian. I
still tep Patsy. I still wave people off two Patsy.
It's such a beautiful thing that should continue. It shows
(07:58):
we're all love kindness. Diane, that's lovely. I remember ree
years ago. Do you see like families would if they
saw train go by. This was in the eight and
obviously trains were there's some excite people where they would
just wave at the strangers on the trains. Yes, I should.
When we were out like walking with the dogs, we
to go by this train track when there was a
train come and I always get the kids down and
(08:19):
we just wave at the stranger. I don't even know why.
And some of them would wave back, Oh that's cute. Yes,
I don't think anyone's waving. And now if I saw
someone waving at a train, I would think, bless them,
they're not well. I would I would sadly think that
are people still you know? When with a truck?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Are people still going doing the honks side? I've kids
and then the trucks trucks honk back.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, I've never know. If I saw you doing that,
I think you really weren't very well. If you're waving
at a train, that's another level.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
But I go, wow, my dad was a truck driver
and you'd always have people do that need.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Horn back sounds like a great You still see kids,
school kids at the side of the road standing with your.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Chuckle sisters, are getting very excited out there. What's up,
chuckle sisters.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, when you're in the back of the bus as
a kid, that you were doing and were doing.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
One day the best of the day as well being
at that back, that back seat, that big long back seat,
that's where that that's where the action was, and just
mooning various tribes as well. Oh my god, yes, check
with the toddlers and always moon on the back seat.
Christian O'Connell show on podcast
I Heart podcasts, hear More Gold podcast playlist and listen
live on the free I Heart app. Got anything good? Hey,
this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. All right, turn
now for this week's small thing, Big Joy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Small thing, Big Joy text us spot you enjoy, like
finding five bucks in your jeans or buying the soft
fan of your dreams.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
All right, what s more thing gives you big joy?
Text us yours share it? Oh four seventy five three
one o four three, Perhaps you what's yours?
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Mine is driveway goodbyes, which I think is a dying art,
so doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Whenever we go up to my parents place.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Whether it's a small visit could be just five minutes
to drop something off, pick something up, or a long
visit on Sunday afternoon, they will always come out and
wave us goodbye, always always sweet.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
But it's a dying art.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I think it's dying off with the older generation where
they would always see you off and it's so beautiful
and I know one day when they're.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Not around, you'll miss that wave. I will miss that
so much, really touching, and it's just the simplest thing.
And Mum will wait until you're.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Down out of sight until I'm still the same parts. Right.
The kids, my two daughters now will obviously drive their
own cars. I still walk them to their cars, help
them with their crap, and we'll wave them off down
the road. You can go now. And no, No, it's
just a thing, you know. It's a generational thing.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It really is. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
There was never a time when I was growing up
if you visited an aunt and uncle or cousins where
they didn't come out and wait off.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Now we don't do it anymore, and I think it's
a real show.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
If you are the receiver of the wave off, you
should give it away bast away raised right, just not
the big old but a little like you know, as
you're being waved off, if you're the wavy and they're
the wavers, and you've got to return it with your
going down the road.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, only with Mom and Dad though they're the only
ones I do, because they're always out the front in
the driveway waving a song.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
I think it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
If I came to visit you, would you wave me off?
I think I can imagine what kind of wave?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Thank god he's gone?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What's that? They don't do that enough anymore?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The old driveway bird.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The bird by.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
You wouldn't come out where do you come?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Mind?
Speaker 5 (02:50):
You?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
If I was going to get the wave off just
to experience that real what small thing? But that was
a beautiful one, Percy, thanks for show no Rial, what's yours?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I had a goodie yesterday. I was at the petrol station,
pulled in behind this guy in front of me. He
filled up first, he went in. I came in after he.
I caught him napping. He's looking around at the Allan's lollies,
the snake having a little look at the ice cream
right in front of him.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I paid before him.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh sorry, brother.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
In this game silky soccer skills, there a little side step, yes,
a bit of ekunda. And now Intern Pete is part
of the advance party. He's up at the criteria in
hotel where we'll be live tomorrow morning. This is the
part we've been renovating for the last couple of weeks.
And Pete, what small thing, big joint for you.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I don't want to use the words the greatest day
of my life, but yes, that was actually yesterday when
I sliced a big chunk of cheese. Now the biggest
challenge when you slice the cheese is, oh, how many
crackers do I need to take out of the packet
to match the ratio of the cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Now, this ratio has got to be right, cracker to
You've got to balance it. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
You've got to get it so right. There's no having
to go back to the pantry and get more or
bring in the whole packet than having to put the
packet back later, all that sort of stuff. You've got
to get it right. I predicted that I would need
thirteen ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I got.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No cheese an afternoon.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It was a lot of cheese, and it was a
beautiful thirteen crackers, perfectly the right amount of cheese on
everything one, none of that like, oh a little bit
on that one and a little bit bigger on that.
It was just perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Now tell me this, in fact, don't tell us your team.
Let's have a guess what type of cheese you think
Pete was calming up? You think a common of garden
hard cheddar.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
I think he's gone from Mercy Valley cheddar.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's a bit fancy. It's Sydney cider in him, isn't it.
You know all those shears in a cane jay show.
I think he's going for bre.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The answer is it was cheer cheese. Oh, sorry to
disappoint everyone. It was no dafn ware or saying to
go from Leon in France. It was just typical, very
basic chee che.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Lovely couple of slices of Yarlsburg yesterday afternoon picked me up.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I feel I've disappointed all of you by just eating
stand and cheese.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I just thought you would be a bit more fancy.
I thought you thought you might even be maybe a
manchega or gooda man.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Oh, I do love all of them. See I used
to be a cheesemaker as well, but sometimes it's nice
to go back to basics.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Yes, so I learned how to make cheese, after all, I.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thought you were talking about what you did in the
Carl and Jackie o' show. Awful lot of cheese, sour blue,
very blue, very blue. Actually yes, yes, things got rights.
Absolutely so.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
After my apprenticeship with the chef, I learned how to
make cheese in regional Victoria at Timboon Farmhouse Cheese. The
cheese was that good it was taken over by King
island and then can of beers, breeze, you name it.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
This is incredible. What a life you've led.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yes, and I'm only thirty five. It's crazy now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Participating before the show was telling us when we were
talking about how do you cut the cheese? I actually
cut it in a triangle formation and then you dress
the plate so it looks quite nice when you have
a little bit of cheese and crankers. But I got
the idea is just using sliced cheese.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Correct, I just used that, you know cheese, like sliced
cheese cheese.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's not Bogan, it's burger burger cheese. Well, if you're
using the pre slice stuff you're in the Rappers, you don't.
That's not a shark coute kind of board.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Look, not in the Rappers.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
This is the one that's you know the square box
that you get at Willworths or Coals.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
And like eager or huge.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah, exactly, and it just comes as a square.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
But I only use that because I have it as
a snack daily and I like a controlled.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Amount how many slices.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I would have two slices, which is equivalent to probably
about if I break it down into six twelve and
then I get my thirteen crackers.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's the magic number this morning. All right, okay, what
is the small thing big joy for you? For you
stay seker about him. Small thing big joy is when
I'm baking a cake and I need one hundred and
twenty five grams of butter and I managed to just
eyeboard it and slice off exactly one hundred and twenty
five grams a butt off the wedge on my first
attempt known bessing about trying to get a tiny bit
(07:14):
more but five grams ten grams. It's uncanny when you
hit that. You do it for great. It's like an
Olympic gold medal. Christian small thing big joy. When you
craving a few crackers, open the packet, boom, thirteen left.
It's the number today, show thirteen Christian small thing big Joy.
Tickling toddlers, now, Christy, Obviously you need to know the toddler.
(07:38):
You need to be related to a toddler. You can't
be going around tickling unknown toddlers. I should have to
say it, but I feel like I should say three.
The label always always check with a toddle of bine.
You right to have a little chicky tile Christian. I
still tep Patsy. I still wave people off two Patsy.
It's such a beautiful thing that should continue. It shows
(07:58):
we're all love kindness. Diane, that's lovely. I remember ree
years ago. Do you see like families would if they
saw train go by. This was in the eight and
obviously trains were there's some excite people where they would
just wave at the strangers on the trains. Yes, I should.
When we were out like walking with the dogs, we
to go by this train track when there was a
train come and I always get the kids down and
(08:19):
we just wave at the stranger. I don't even know why.
And some of them would wave back, Oh that's cute. Yes,
I don't think anyone's waving. And now if I saw
someone waving at a train, I would think, bless them,
they're not well. I would I would sadly think that
are people still you know? When with a truck?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Are people still going doing the honks side? I've kids
and then the trucks trucks honk back.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, I've never know. If I saw you doing that,
I think you really weren't very well. If you're waving
at a train, that's another level.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
But I go, wow, my dad was a truck driver
and you'd always have people do that need.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Horn back sounds like a great You still see kids,
school kids at the side of the road standing with your.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Chuckle sisters, are getting very excited out there. What's up,
chuckle sisters.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, when you're in the back of the bus as
a kid, that you were doing and were doing.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
One day the best of the day as well being
at that back, that back seat, that big long back seat,
that's where that that's where the action was, and just
mooning various tribes as well. Oh my god, yes, check
with the toddlers and always moon on the back seat.
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